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17706217Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17704791Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17706214Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17995165Neuchatel: Veuve Seguin 1799. First edition Thus. The publisher's colophon details year VIII 1799. We can find no copy of this edition on WorldCat or the BnF website although there is a printing 3 years later. Complete with 12 engravings each of which has two images. Contemporary or shortly after stiff card paper covered boards. Blue paper for boards with orange to the spine and corners. These are both moderately rubbed. short title in ink to the spine. Title with engraved vignette owner's name alongside vignette. The binding is loose to the casing and is threatening to split but is currently holding together. Internally clean and tidy with a little marking and darkening to the pages. One plate is partially detached but holding firm. Overall a decent copy of a scarce abridgement. Buffon's Natural History formally titled Histoire naturelle générale et particulière is a monumental scientific work by the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon 1707–1788. Published initially from 1749 to 1788 with supplements and further volumes issued after Buffon's death it stands among the most influential natural science publications of the Enlightenment era. 216 pages. 140 by 90mm 5½ by 3½ inches. . Première édition. Le colophon de l'éditeur indique l'année VIII 1799. Nous n'avons trouvé aucun exemplaire de cette édition dans WorldCat ou sur le site de la BnF bien qu'il y ait une impression 3 ans plus tard. Complet de 12 gravures chacune comportant deux images. Plaques contemporaines ou peu après recouvertes de papier cartonné rigide. Les planches sont recouvertes de papier bleu et le dos et les coins sont orangés. Ils sont tous deux modérément frottés. Titre court à l'encre sur le dos. Titre avec vignette gravée nom du propriétaire à côté de la vignette. La reliure est détachée du boîtier et menace de se fendre mais elle tient pour l'instant. L'intérieur est propre et bien rangé avec quelques marques et noircissements sur les pages. Une planche est partiellement détachée mais elle tient bien. Dans l'ensemble il s'agit d'un bon exemplaire d'un abrégé rare. L'Histoire naturelle de Buffon formellement intitulée Histoire naturelle générale et particulière est une œuvre scientifique monumentale du naturaliste français Georges-Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon 1707-1788. Publiée initialement de 1749 à 1788 avec des suppléments et d'autres volumes publiés après la mort de Buffon elle compte parmi les publications les plus influentes du siècle des Lumières dans le domaine des sciences naturelles. 216 pages. 140 x 90 mm 5½ x 3½ pouces. Veuve Seguin hardcover
1793609491793. Te Dordrecht By A. Blussé en Zoon 1793 4° IV 340 pp. 6 Kuoferstichtafeln Halbledereinband d.Zt.; frisches Exemplar. INHOUD VAN DIT DEEL: Proeve van eene Zedenkundige Rekenkunde. Rekenkundige Maaten. Meetkundige Maaten. Van de waarschijnlijkheden van de duuring van het leven. Tafel van de waarschijnlijkheid van het leven. Algemeene Tafel van de Geborene Getrouwde Paaren en Gestorvene in de Stad Parys van het jaar 1709 tot het jaar 1766 ingesloten. Tafel van de Gedoopte Getrouwde Paaren en Begravene in de Stad Montbard in Bourgonje. Tafel der Geborene Getrouwde Paaren en Overledene in de Stad Semur in Auxois. Tafel van de Geborene Getrouwde Paaren en Overledene in de Stad Flavigny. Tafel van de Geborene Getrouwde Paaren en Overledene in de Stad Vitteaux. Tafel van de Geborene Getrouwde Paaren en Overledene in de Burgt Epoisses en verscheiden dorpen van de Bailluagie van Semur in Auxois. Tafel van de Geborene Getrouwde Paaren en Overledene in de geheele Bailluagie van Semur in Auxois. Tafel van de Geborene Getrouwde Paaren en Gestorvene in de Bailluagie van Saulieu in Bourgonje. Vergelijking der sterfte in de Stad Parys en op het Land. Vergelijking van de sterf-lijsten in Frankrijk met de sterflijsten te Londen. Bijvoegzel op het hoofdstuk waarin gehandeld wordt van de klierachtige lighaamen die het zaadvogt der wijfjens bevatten Bijvoegzel op het hoofdstuk waarin gehandeld wordt van de verscheidenheid in de Voortteeling en van de Voortteeling van zelve. Bijvoegzel op het hoofdstuk waarin van de bevalling gehandeld wordt. Waarneeming omtrent eene laate geboorte. Waarneeming van eene zeer vroege geboorte. Bijvoegzel op het hoofdstuk van de kindsheid. I. Jonggeboren Kinderen welken men genoodzaakt is het tongriemtjen doortesnijden. II. Over het gebruik van Zwagtels en Keurslijven. III. Over den groei der Kinderen.- Bijvoegzel op het hoofdstuk over de Huwbaarheid. Bijvoegzel op de Beschrijving van den Mensch. I. Menschen van eene buitengewoone dikte. II. Reuzen. III. Dwergen. IV. Voedzel van den Mensch in verschillende lugtstreeken. Bijvoegzel op het Hoofdstuk over den Ouderdom en den Dood. Bijvoegsel op het Hoofdstuk over het Zintuig des Gezigts Bijvoegzel op het Hoofdstuk over het Zintuig van het Gehoor. Over de stem der Dieren. Over den graad van hitte welke de mensch en de dieren verdraagen kunnen Bijvoegzel op het Hoofdstuk ten opschriftvoerende verscheidenheden in het menschlijk geslagt. Over de kleur der Negers. Over de Dwergen van Madagaskar. Van de Patagoniers. Over de Amerikaanen. Eilanders yan da Zuid-zee. Bewooners van de Zuid-landen. Van de Blaffards en Witte Negers. Over de Monsters. Academische Redenvoeringen. Ontwerp van een andwoord aan den Heer de Coëtlosquet oud Bischop van Limoges bij zijne intrede inde Académie Françoise. Andwoord aan den Heer Watelet. Andwoord aan den Heer de la Condamine Andwoord aan den Heer Ridder de Chastelux. Andwoord aan den Heer Marschalk Hertog van Duras. Door den Heer de Buffon. Vertaald door J.D. Pasteur "A developing science depended on The Natural History of Man a work that was found to possess the functional capacity of extending the boundaries of knowledge. 'Buffon enlarged all the questions he touched on furthermore he created new questions' Flourens 1850:155. As soon as the 'varieties' and therefore the variations in man became the central issue to be elucidated the analysis of the biological and sociological mechanisms responsible for creating racial differences became more diversified. A discipline was thus created one that would rapidly differentiate between its objects of inquiry and its techniques of inquiry. It can be seen then that without any kind of break the Buffonian ideology of man retrospectively discovered a scholarly solution in what Thomas Kuhn called a 'disciplinary matrix' a hard kernel of statements principles deductive links and exemplary cases that allowed work on proofs to proceed within a framework of cumulative knowledge. At the origin of this process of'crystallization' there was neither the stroke of intuitive genius of a solitary scientist nor a 'great idea' divorced from its social pre-text. Instead there is a complex process whose contextual and biographical foundations as well as future academic and nationalistic issues are revealed by epistemological analysis." CLAUDE BLANCKAERT Buffon and the natural history of man: writing history and the 'foundational myth' of anthropology. HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES 6/1 1993 pp.13-50 unknown
17706657Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17704033Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17704037Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17706655Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17656479Paris: Hôtel de Thou 1765. First Edition — Primera edición. Hardcover — Tapa dura. 247x186mm. 9¾x7¼". Paris Hôtel de Thou n.d. 1765. En 4º 247 x 186mm. 2 volúmenes. -I: 7 h. 182 láminas. -II: 1 h. 160 láminas. En total 362 láminas grabadas y coloreadas a mano en la época con la representación de animales. Encuadernación de la épocas en piel lomera cuajada de adornos dorados. Primera edición de una de las obras más raras y apreciadas de Buffon dedicada a los animales cuadrúpedos desconocida a Nissen y otra bibliografÃa especializada. Muy rara publicación separada de los grabados creados para los <em>Animaux quadrupèdes</em> de Buffon y organizados según el sistema linneano. Todas las 362 placas han sido delicadamente coloreadas a mano en el momento de la publicación. La publicación de la monumental <em>Histoire Naturelle</em> de Buffon iniciada en 1749 y continuada por Lacépède abarcó un lapso de más de 50 años. Su éxito fue inmediato y Buffon menciona en su correspondencia que los primeros 3 volúmenes se agotaron después de solo 6 semanas. Al año siguiente vio la luz una edición de menor formato. Sus ilustraciones se basaban en los mismos dibujos pero grabados sobre planchas en formato reducido. El pintor y excelente dibujante Jacques de Sève es el artista que ha realizado la práctica totalidad de las imágenes de esta <em>Histoire naturelle</em>. La mayorÃa de los dibujos originales están dispersos hoy; en 1791 se vendió una colección de 152 dibujos originales que habÃan pertenecido a la colección del conde Mirabeau. La calidad de las ilustraciones contribuyó enormemente al éxito universal y la popularidad de la obra prueba de lo cual esta suite publicada por separado. Los cuadrúpedos están aquà clasificados por orden y género en el sistema animal de Linné. Esta colección es de gran rareza y no se menciona en ninguna bibliografÃa especializada. Para Francia el Catalogue Collectif de France indica dos copias institucionales Bibliothèque nationale de France y Troyes; la base de datos KVK localiza una copia completa en Torino y un solo volumen en la Biblioteca Estatal de Rusia. Hôtel de Thou hardcover
1788M5521Paris 1788. Very Good folding map flattened and folds reinforced laid on acid free canvas for long term preservation. Notes: "Double hemispherical world map with each hemisphere shown on polar projection. Plate probably accompanied: Histoire naturelle generale et particulare / George Louis Leclerc Buffon. Paris 1749-1804. Plate "No. 8" of an 8 sheet map which was probably compiled from the reports of La Perouse’s last voyage in the Pacific and is by Jean-Charles Borda." National Library of Australia Digital Collection map-rm3253 Size : 480x940 mm 18.875x37 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored in Outline Category: ; Maps Polar Antarctic Regions; Maps Polar Arctic Regions unknown
17706649Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
1750654356Hamburg & Leipzig.: Georg Christian Grund & Adam Heinrich Holle. 1750. Orig.Halbleder. Mit 8 Tafeln 2 Faltkarten Kupferstichen im Text & Vignetten. Deckel lose Ecken und Kanten berieben. Vorsatz gebräunt. Rücken aufgeplatzt. Starke Gebrauchsspuren. xxvii318 SeitenRegister 288 SeitenRegister. Georg Christian Grund & Adam Heinrich Holle. unknown
1797cdb02London: H D Symonds. G: in good condition. Oval library stamp to feps & title pages. Covers rubbed and scuffed. Spines heavily rubbed with loss to spine ends. Some title panels missing. Some hinges cracked and weak. Some foxing but content in overall VG condition. 1797. First edition thus. Brown hardback leather cover. 200mm x 130mm 8" x 5". viii 333pp; iv 348pp; 348pp; 352pp; 347pp; iv 346pp; iv 338pp; iv 343pp; vi 355pp; 366pp; viii 322pp; viii 331pp; viii 320pp; viii 322pp; viii 386pp plates. 130 b/w plates. Published 1797-1798. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . H D Symonds hardcover
1797cdb04London: H D Symonds. G: in good condition. Oval library stamp to feps & title pages. Covers rubbed and scuffed. Spines heavily rubbed with loss to spine ends. Some title panels missing. Some hinges cracked and weak. Some foxing but content in overall VG condition. 1797. First edition thus. Brown hardback leather cover. 200mm x 130mm 8" x 5". viii 333pp; iv 348pp; 348pp; 352pp; 347pp; iv 346pp; iv 338pp; iv 343pp; vi 355pp; 366pp plates. 130 b/w plates. Published 1797-1798. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . H D Symonds hardcover
1797cdb04aLondon: H D Symonds. G: in good condition. Covers rubbed. Some hinges cracked. Occasional oxing but mostly crisp and clean. 1797. Reprint. Brown hardback leather cover. 200mm x 130mm 8" x 5". viii 333pp; iv 348pp; 348pp; 352pp; 347pp; iv 346pp; iv 338pp; iv 343pp; vi 355pp; 366pp plates. 85 b/w plates. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . H D Symonds hardcover
1798819573Published by H.D. Symonds 1798. Hardback. Good. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Embellished with upwards of 200 engravings 44 b/w plates. Leather spine with dark red title labels and gilt titles and decorations. Spine and cover edges and corners are worn. 1 title label is missing. Page edges are browned. Joints starting to crack but binding is tight. Volume 5 front joint split so cover is almost detached. Some scattered foxing. REDUCED FROM £440. Published by H.D. Symonds hardcover
1792013725London: Published for C.& G. Kearsley 1792. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Abridged two volume edition and first thus. Contemporary tree calf. marbleized endpapers. Labels on spine partially missing and spines heavily worn. xxxviii 1 353 with plates I - XL. with errata leaf and directions to binder for both volumes; 494 with plates XLI - CVIL. Joints partially revealed but holding. Firm binding. All plates extant. Some episodic spotting. Plates quite nice. Published for C.& G. Kearsley hardcover
1792051302C. & G. Kearsley. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1792. Hardcover. Hardcover 2 volumes. Blue marbleized boards with vellum spines. Boards show edge wear and rubbing light fraying. Vellum spine with title and decorations in gold. Some scuffing soil and sunning. Marbleized fore edges. Previous owners name and notations to inside paste downs and first endpaper. Endpaper soil and foxing. Hinges lightly cracked bindings are nice and tight. Occasional foxing to text. Copper plates throughout. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . C. & G. Kearsley hardcover
17706647Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
179744513Printed for the Proprietor Barr 1797. 1st English edition. Good/No Jacket. Full leather binding Tree calf binding. Lacks the Supplementary set vols. 11-16 in effect. Former owner's signature in vol. 1. Printed for the Proprietor (Barr) hardcover
1788M6850Paris 1788. Very Good; laid on acid-free paper for long-term preservation. Notes: This handsome sea chart that indicates magnetic needle readings along various routes through the Atlantic. Size : 850x532 mm 33.46x20.94 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored in Outline Category: Maps Sea Chart; Maps Ocean Atlantic; unknown
178817473Very Good. 1788. Map. Title: Carte des déclinaisons et inclinaisons de l'aiguille aimantée : rédigée d'après la table des observations magnétiques faites par les voyageurs depuis l'année 1775. Map of declinations and inclinations of the magnetic needle: drawn up according to the table of magnetic observations made by travelers since 1775. . Date printed: 1788. Condition: This original 18th century copper plate engraved map is toned with some very modest foxing but in very good overall condition. There are tears to the right margin and folds as issued. Dimensions: 24" x 24" Details: This map was published to accompany Buffon's treatise on magnetism and magnets This "Map of declinations and inclinations of the magnetized needle drawn up according to the table of magnetic observations made by travelers since the year 1775" shows geomagnetic variation. Although it has at times been attributed to La Perouse the map and those published with this one predicted his voyage and include information from observations made on the voyages of Cook de Bougainville Carteret and others. . . unknown
17506103Hamburg and Leipzig: Georg Christian Grund and Adam Heinrich Holle 1750. Contemporary vellum not strictly matching. 4to. With engraved vignette on 16 title-pages engraved headpiece to the dedication engraved headpieces to each part 2 engraved maps folding engraved genealogical table 1 folding letterpress table and 575 engraved plates by J.C.G. Fritzsch J. Haas J.C. Sysang etc. 8 of 11 volumes divided into two parts each. Very rare first edition of the German translation of Buffon's famous Histoire naturelle. Buffon's work presents ''for the first time a complete survey of natural history in popular form'' PMM. The first volume contains Buffon's theoretical essays including his essay on the earth where "for the first time he outlines a satisfactory account of the history of our globe and of its development as a fitting home for living things. In his view the earth had been originally part of the sun which was broken off by the impact of a comet. It gradually condensed from its gaseous state and the forces shaping its continents and mountains are still active'' PMM. This view of the universe not in a steady state but evolving was a revolutionary idea at the time paving the way for Darwin in the following century. In his treatise on humans volume II.1 Buffon ''studied the human species by the same methods that he applied to animal species including the psychological moral and intellectual life of man. From his exhaustive research for the Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes Buffon came to the conclusion that it was necessary to reintroduce the notion of family. Breaking with the spirit of his time Buffon attempted to separate science from metaphysical and religious ideas. As a disciple of Locke he denied idealistic metaphysics stating that mental abstractions can never become principles of either existence or real knowledge; these can come only as the results of sensation'' DSB. Volumes II-VIII deal with quadrupeds. The German edition was begun in 1750 but discontinued after the three volumes on ornithology in 1782 not included here while the original French which had started in 1749 continued till 1804 and comprised eventually 44 volumes.The first 8 volumes of the German Buffon with an owner's inscription on title-page of the first volume dated 1750. Only some occasional spot but otherwise in very good condition.l Nissen ZBI 709; cf. Anker 79 vols. IX-XI; DSB II pp. 576-582; PMM 198; Wood p. 267. Georg Christian Grund and Adam Heinrich Holle, hardcover
17747132Leipzig: Hermann Heinrich Holle 1774. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto 2 parts in one volume. A very good copy bound in 19th century 3/4 sheep and blue mottled paper over boards. First signature partly loosened but still attached. Contents clean. General wear to extremities; a crisp copy. Contains a few large engravings of various simians and some other lithographs. Text in German; single volume only. Hermann Heinrich Holle hardcover